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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History
February 12
1935—USS Macon (ZRS 5) crashes into the sea off Point Sur, CA, after encountering a storm that tears off her upper fin, effectively ending the Navy's trouble-plagued rigid-airship program.
1945—USS Hawkbill (SS 366) sinks the small Japanese cargo vessel Kisaragi Maru and the two large boats she is towing, at Lombok Strait, N.E.I.
1947—The first launch of a guided missile, the Loon, takes place on board USS Cusk (SS 348).
This Day in History
February 12
1294 Kubai Khan, the conqueror of Asia, dies at the age of 80.
1554 Lady Jane Grey, the Queen of England for thirteen days, is beheaded on Tower Hill. She was barely 17 years old.
1709 Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish seaman whose adventures inspired the creation of Daniel Dafoe's Robinson Crusoe, is taken off Juan Fernandez Island after more than four years of living there alone.
1793 The first fugitive slave law, requiring the return of escaped slaves, is passed.
1818 Chile gains independence from Spain.
1836 Mexican General Santa Anna crosses the Rio Grande en route to the Alamo.
1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed.
1912 China becomes a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.
1921 Winston Churchill of London is appointed colonial secretary.
1924 George Gershwin's groundbreaking symphonic jazz composition Rhapsody in Blue premieres with Gershwin himself playing the piano with Paul Whiteman's orchestra.
1929 Charles Lindbergh announces his engagement to Anne Morrow.
1931 Japan makes its first television broadcast--a baseball game.
1935 The Macon, the last U.S. Navy dirigible, crashes off the coast of California, killing two people.
1938 Japan refuses to reveal naval data requested by the U.S. and Britain.
1940 The Soviet Union signs a trade treaty with Germany to aid against the British blockade.
1944 Wendell Wilkie enters the American presidential race against Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1949 Muslim Brotherhood chief Hassan el Banna is shot to death in Cairo.
1953 The Soviets break off diplomatic relations with Israel after the bombing of Soviet legation.
1966 The South Vietnamese win two big battles in the Mekong Delta.
1972 Senator Edward Kennedy advocates amnesty for Vietnam draft resisters.
1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army asks the Hearst family for $230 million in food for the poor.
1980 The Lake Placid Winter Olympics open in New York.
1987 A Court in Texas upholds $8.5 billion of a fine imposed on Texaco for the illegal takeover of Getty Oil.
1999 The U.S. Senate fails to pass two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton. He had been accused of perjury and obstruction of justice by the House of Representatives.
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
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In case you haven't noticed the TV ads
THE SILENT BRAINWASH
A smart person knows what to say.
A wise person knows whether to say it or not.
THE SILENT BRAINWASH
Brainwashing is best accomplished when you have no idea that it is being done but simply occurs as part of the fabric of your life. While you may "feel" that something is wrong, you are being programmed nonetheless. Think about TV Commercials and shows with these facts in mind.
Facts:
US population 334 million consisting of 57.8% white, 18.7% Latino, 12.1% Black and 11.4% Asian or other.
Then break that down to about 10% of all existing marriages that are interracial including those of all races, and only 5.6% of the population that identifies as LGBT. You would expect the same ratios in TV commercials if they represented America but here's what you see instead, taken from a log of TV commercials over a 4 month period, which is quite different.
For TV, white men as the majority of Americans have all but disappeared. When they are in commercials they are either old, ugly, and sick or they are the partner of a black woman and have no speaking part. In 3 of the commercials, the white men are doing laundry and always paired with a little girl to whom they are delivering the clean clothes. In other words, less than 10% of the population is driving 90% of the narrative.
There were zero commercials of White fathers and sons. None! So while 75% of white children live with both their parents, including their fathers, we choose instead not to model that in favor of the 62% of black children that do not live in a two parent household? This is our new normal in their eyes? As acceptable? Is this the healthy "normal" image we want to model to our population?
Equally disturbing, young white boys and teens have also disappeared, unless they were flagrantly new age gay, as though that represents the "majority" instead of the pitifully small minority. What distorted perception of reality does that serve? The study found a majority of the children were white girls with a black "brother" even though this represents the smallest percentage of any reality discussed thus far! The MAJORITY of TV commercial couples consist of a white woman with a black man when in reality these makeup about 6% of the 30% of blacks that are married or about 2% of our population. Are you starting to see how ridiculous, yet pervasive this extraordinary brainwashing is? Exactly what are they trying to program into us with this relentless deluge of non-reality?
Surprisingly, in the month of December, there was an uptick (but not a majority) in good looking white male models, but researchers determined that in each and every case it was a cologne commercial and every one of those commercials were made in Europe where they still use white men in their commercials. Here, on the other hand, they prefer to portray young white males as so mind-numbingly stupid as being incapable of delivering their lines and couldn't even say "Liberty Mutual", the insurance company featured in the commercial.
Over a period of 4 months, it concluded that while the African American population in America is only 12% they were in 94.3% of the commercials. Black males are only 5% of our population yet were in 89.7% of the ads. Then you have to ask, where are the Asians and Latinos that makeup nearly THREE TIMES the black population? Are they in THREE TIMES the number of ads or is something severely skewed here in the minds of Hollywood and Madison Avenue?
The fact is that while white males make up the largest segment of our population, they were in only 4% of the TV commercials! In most of those cases, they were in their 60's to '80s and were pushing medication for debilitating diseases, reverse mortgages (Tom Selleck), or Medicare plans. While the study had many, many more alarming facts, one that really stands out is that virtually every ad campaign for new cars featured a woman driver except for Lincoln. In the commercials for automobiles, there were more black women drivers than white women. Again, Europe was the exception here where Mercedes and BMW had NO VISIBLE DRIVERS!! They showed the cars cruising highways but never allowed a view where the driver was visible. I found that very interesting. Are they more interested in selling the product while we appear to be more interested in selling the political/racial message?
And it is not just our commercials that offer this skewed media driven unreality. It is also nearly impossible to turn on a show that doesn't have a gay couple or LGBT component, yet in reality, only one in twenty-five should, if they want to accurately represent the less than 4% of the population that fall in this group. The results of this brainwashing are dramatic and very successful. Despite the low percentage in real life, when polled, Americans have been brainwashed to believe that 24% of all Americans are LGBT! Based on commercials, they must also believe that the "average" American family is biracial, that white man barely exists and Latinos/Asians do not exist at all.
That is the magic and the tragedy of the fake, dishonest and unrealistic "woke" TV that we watch and are affected by 24/7, even though it is far afield from our reality. Ditto for the "woke" minority that follows mindlessly in its wake, thinking that this bizarre narrative is in fact real or justified when it is merely an illusion and fabrication. They truly do control our entire thought process and will distort our perception of reality, if we allow them to.
While it is one thing to erase the stigma of single parenthood, bi-racialism, or unusual sexual preferences, it is another thing completely to portray them as the "Role Model" or "Norm", as representative of our entire society, especially at the expense of true normality or realism. In this case, it looks like White, Latino, Asian and straight lives don't matter according to them, and Black privilege with a side of LGBT has taken us over!
Make it a good Day.
Jim
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This Day in U S Military History
February 12
1935 – The USS Macon, the last U.S. Navy dirigible, crashed on its 55th flight off the coast of California, killing two people. After takeoff from Point Sur, California, a gust of wind tore off the ship's upper fin, deflating its gas cells and causing the ship to fall into the sea. Two of Macon 's 83 crewmen died in the accident. The U.S. Navy lost the airships Shenandoah in 1925 and Akron in 1933. Some considered airships too dangerous for the program to continue at that point, and work on them in the United States halted temporarily. The German zeppelin Hindenburg crashed and burned in 1936.
1945 – The US 11th Corps has closed the neck of the Bataan Peninsula and is advancing southward to clear the Japanese forces from it.
1945 – American USAAF B-24 and B-29 bombers raid Iwo Jima in preparation for the landings later in the month. They drop a daily average of 450 tons of bombs over the course of 15 days (6800 tons).
1945 – USS Batfish (SS-310) sinks second Japanese submarine within three days.
1973 – The release of U.S. POWs begins in Hanoi as part of the Paris peace settlement. The return of U.S. POWs began when North Vietnam released 142 of 591 U.S. prisoners at Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport. Part of what was called Operation Homecoming, the first 20 POWs arrived to a hero's welcome at Travis Air Force Base in California on February 14. Operation Homecoming was completed on March 29, 1973, when the last of 591 U.S. prisoners were released and returned to the United States.
1988 – Two Soviet warships bump two U.S. navy vessels in waters claimed by the Soviet Union. The incident was an indication that even though the Cold War was slowly coming to a close, old tensions and animosities remained unabated. The incident between the ships took place in the Black Sea, off the Crimean peninsula. The American destroyer Caron and cruiser Yorktown were operating within the 12-mile territorial limit claimed by the Soviet Union. They were challenged by a Soviet frigate and destroyer and told to leave the waters. Then, according to a Navy spokesman, the Soviet ships "shouldered" the U.S. ships out of the way, bumping them slightly. There was no exchange of gunfire, and the American ships eventually departed from the area. There was no serious damage to either U.S. vessel or any injuries. In many ways, the incident was an unnecessarily provocative action by the United States. For many years, the United States had challenged the Russian claim of a 12-mile territorial limit in the waters off the Crimean peninsula. However, the timing and the use of the Caron in this particular operation made this a rather foolish act. The United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in negotiations to limit long-range nuclear weapons, and in December 1987, the important INF Treaty, by which both the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to eliminate their medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe, had been signed. The Caron was well known as an intelligence gathering vessel and its appearance in waters claimed by the Soviets would be seen as suspicious at best. For their part, the Soviets probably overreacted. American ships regularly moved through the area and were usually unchallenged. Perhaps the Soviet military felt a message should be sent that Russia, which was experiencing severe economic and political problems, was still a nation to be taken seriously as a major military power.
2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year. The mission succeeded in closing in with the asteroid and orbited it several times, finally terminating by touching down on the asteroid.
2010 – The United States successfully shoots down a launching ballistic missile using the Boeing YAL-1, a military Boeing 747-400F aircraft mounted with a chemical oxygen iodine laser weapon. The Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed (formerly Airborne Laser) weapons system is a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) mounted inside a modified Boeing 747-400F. It is primarily designed as a missile defense system to destroy tactical ballistic missiles (TBMs), while in boost phase. The aircraft was designated YAL-1A in 2004 by the U.S. Department of Defense.
2013 – Following a seismic event recorded in South Korea, North Korea confirms that it has successfully tested a nuclear device, claiming that it is small enough to be weaponized.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
*DELEAU, EMILE, JR.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company A, 142d Infantry, 36th Infantry Division. Place and date: Oberhoffen, France, 12 February 1945. Entered service at: Blaine, Ohio. Birth: Lansing, Ohio. G.O. No.: 60, 25 July 1945. Citation: He led a squad in the night attack on Oberhoffen, France, where fierce house-to-house fighting took place. After clearing 1 building of opposition, he moved his men toward a second house from which heavy machinegun fire came. He courageously exposed himself to hostile bullets and, firing his submachine gun as he went, advanced steadily toward the enemy position until close enough to hurl grenades through a window, killing 3 Germans and wrecking their gun. His progress was stopped by heavy rifle and machinegun fire from another house. Sgt. Deleau dashed through the door with his gun blazing. Within, he captured 10 Germans. The squad then took up a position for the night and awaited daylight to resume the attack. At dawn of 2 February Sgt. Deleau pressed forward with his unit, killing 2 snipers as he advanced to a point where machinegun fire from a house barred the way. Despite vicious small-arms fire, Sgt. Deleau ran across an open area to reach the rear of the building, where he destroyed 1 machinegun and killed its 2 operators with a grenade. He worked to the front of the structure and located a second machinegun. Finding it impossible to toss a grenade into the house from his protected position, he fearlessly moved away from the building and was about to hurl his explosive when he was instantly killed by a burst from the gun he sought to knock out. With magnificent courage and daring aggressiveness, Sgt. Deleau cleared 4 well-defended houses of Germans, inflicted severe losses on the enemy and at the sacrifice of his own life aided his battalion to reach its objective with a minimum of casualties.
*LONG, CHARLES R.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company M, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Hoengsong, Korea, 12 February 1951. Entered service at: Kansas City, Mo. Born: 10 December 1923, Kansas City, Mo. G.O. No.: 18, 1 February 1952. Citation: Sgt. Long, a member of Company M, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action against an armed enemy of the United Nations. When Company M, in a defensive perimeter on Hill 300, was viciously attacked by a numerically superior hostile force at approximately 0300 hours and ordered to withdraw, Sgt. Long, a forward observer for the mortar platoon, voluntarily remained at his post to provide cover by directing mortar fire on the enemy. Maintaining radio contact with his platoon, Sgt. Long coolly directed accurate mortar fire on the advancing foe. He continued firing his carbine and throwing handgrenades until his position was surrounded and he was mortally wounded. Sgt. Long's inspirational, valorous action halted the onslaught, exacted a heavy toll of enemy casualties, and enabled his company to withdraw, reorganize, counterattack, and regain the hill strongpoint. His unflinching courage and noble self-sacrifice reflect the highest credit on himself and are in keeping with the honored traditions of the military service.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for February 12, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
12 February
1912: Above New York harbor, Frank Coffyn took automatic aerial motion pictures from a seaplane. (24)
1921: First section of American "model" airways route from Washington DC to Dayton, Ohio, opened. (5)
1928: Charles (Speed) Holman set a new record of 1,093 loops at World-Chamberlain airport, Minneapolis, Minn. (24)
1931: The Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk first flew. (5) The Detroit News purchased a Pitcairn PC A-2. The transaction was the first sale of a commercial autogiro in the US. (24)
1935: The USS Macon (ZRS-5) crashed at sea off California's coast with the loss of two lives. This accident ended the Navy's rigid airship program. (21)
1947: The USS Cusk launched a Loon missile. It was the first guided missile fired from a sub. (24)
1951: KOREAN WAR. Far East Air Forces cargo aircraft airdropped supplies to an X Corps airstrip at Wonju. A leaflet-dropping C-47 aircraft, hit by enemy antiaircraft fire, crashed at Suwon. As a result, FEAF decided to conduct C-47 leaflet drops at night. While B-26s attacked enemy positions at night using air-dropped flares, two enemy planes used the same flares to attack UN positions. (28)
1958: The Department of Defense transferred the Jupiter Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile program from the Army to the USAF. (6)
1959: The Strategic Air Command retired its last operational B-36 Peacemaker (Tail No. 52-2827) from the 95th Bombardment Wing at Biggs AFB, Tex., and placed it on permanent display at Amon Carter Field in Fort Worth. That retirement gave the command an all-jet bomber force. (1) (21)
1960: A Delta Air Lines Convair 880 set a record from San Diego, Calif., to Miami, Fla., in 3 hours 32 minutes. (5)
1965: After almost seven years, Vanguard I appeared to be silenced when radio signals became too weak. (5) The Navy launched the second US satellite,
1958 Beta II, for the International Geophysical Year. This 6-inch, 3.25-pound sphere circled the globe every 134 minutes. (5) USAF scientists at Hanscom AFB, Mass., hit Explorer XXII with a ground-based laser, photographed the spot of reflected light, and recorded it photoelectrically in relation to the surrounding stars. (5) Operation ARC LIGHT. After a Presidential decision to deploy B-52s to Southeast Asia for conventional bombing missions, KC-135s arrived at Andersen AFB, Guam, to support the bombers. (18)
1967: The first production F-111A (No. 9) flew its first flight. (5)
1969: FORCE MODERNIZATION PROGRAM: The Strategic Air Command removed the last Minuteman Is from silos at Malmstrom AFB, Mont. Contractors then began upgrading the silos for Minuteman II missiles. (1) (6)
1970: The first of four C-124s arrived for duty with the 20th Operations Squadron at Clark AB, Philippines. Pacific Air Forces retained the C-124 for moving outsized equipment after the inactivation of all C-124 squadrons in the Military Airlift Command. (17)
1973: Operation HOMECOMING/MACKAY TROPHY. After N. Vietnam released its POWs, the 1st Mobile Communications Group and 1961st Communications Group at Clark AB, Philippines, provided communications to the C-141s returning the former prisoners to Clark. When the 566 POWs reached America, the 375th Aeromedical Airlift Wing transferred them to various military hospitals. Altogether, the Military Airlift Command used 118 C-9A and C-141 missions to support the operation. This event earned the Mackay Trophy. (2) (17) (18)
1998. Operation DESERT THUNDER. KC-135s from Air National Guard units in Mississippi, California, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Alaska, along with KC-135s from two Air Force Resereve units, set up a tanker task force at Eielson AFB, Alaska, to refuel B-52s from Barksdale AFB, La., deploying to Diego Garcia. The bombers deployed to Diego Garcia as part of a threatened bombing campaign to make Iraq comply with United Nations weapons inspections. Diplomatic pressures and the threat of military force allowed the United Nations to resume its inspections for weapons of mass destruction. (32)
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A little bit of everything
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Pentagon study finds China preparing for war with U.S.
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Strategic writings by China's military and party leaders show that China
is making plans for war, according to a new Pentagon study.
Some 600 translations of internal Chinese writings by 200 authors reveal
China's strategy to defeat a superior foe, using both military and
nonmilitary means, such as propaganda, deception and covert action.
They also reveal the extreme distrust of the United States by China's
military and party leaders. Chinese generals state that the United States
intentionally bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, last May as
part of a long-term strategy to prompt an arms race that will cause China's
collapse.
The Chinese statements from the mid-1990s through last year discuss
issues normally couched in secrecy inside China.
They appear in the book "China Debates the Future Security Environment,"
published last month for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, the unit in
charge of long-range planning. The translations were edited by Michael
Pillsbury, a defense policy planner in the Reagan administration who is
fluent in Chinese.
The official Chinese views from Communist Party and military officials
contradict other claims by the Beijing government that China poses no threat
to the United States or other nations.
Chinese strategists plan to use a combination of Marxist-Leninist
doctrine and ancient Chinese tactics against the United States, which is
compared in Chinese military writings as a "hegemon" on a par with Nazi
Germany.
Gen. Li Jijun, described as one of China's most distinguished military
authors, states that the United States engineered the collapse of the Soviet
Union and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait as a "strategic misdirection" or
deception.
Other Chinese authors state the United States is working covertly to
"dismember" western China, namely Tibet and Xinjiang.
The report is a public document, but the Pentagon is limiting its
distribution, presumably because of its stark disclosures of Chinese military
thinking.
According to the book, the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping set the
current military strategy for dealing with the world's only superpower in the
slogan "bide our time and build up our capabilities."
A key debate among Chinese military and party writers is how rapidly the
United States will decline, a view based on the Marxist ideas on the collapse
of capitalism.
The book quotes Gen. Xiong Guankai, the Chinese deputy chief of staff
for intelligence, who finished three days of Pentagon meetings last week, as
one of China's hard-line theorists.
"Any efforts for seeking hegemony and world domination can only result
in accumulating contradictions and fermenting war," Gen. Xiong was quoted as
saying in a speech at Harvard University.
Chinese plans also discuss means of taking out U.S. aircraft-carrier
battle groups. Chinese writer Ying Nan says the groups have numerous
vulnerabilities.
The United States sent two such groups to waters near Taiwan in 1996 in
response to Chinese military exercises aimed at the island.
Mr. Ying stated that weaker Chinese forces could defeat the huge
carriers because the groups are hard to conceal from radar, are less
effective in bad weather and are hampered by shallow water or when operating
close to the coast.
Carriers also are vulnerable to repeated attacks with precision weapons
fired from unmanned aircraft and to electronic warfare from small ships,
offshore islands and aerial balloons that can "create confusion in the
electromagnetic environment," he stated.
Carrier battle groups also can be defeated by advanced submarines and by
attacks on their support ships because the carriers' anti-submarine
capabilities are "relatively poor," Mr. Ying states.
Mr. Ying also cited the carriers' elevators, catapult launchers and
arrester wires as "extremely vulnerable" to precision strikes that would make
the ships useless.
Chinese military strategists also draw upon the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
Chinese tactics â?" pre-emptive attacks before allied forces had massed, covert
attacks inside Saudi Arabia and operations to split the U.S.-led coalition â?"
could have won for Iraq, they wrote.
China now seeks to avoid head-on confrontation until around 2030, when
the Chinese expect U.S. power to decline significantly.
However, a war between China and the United States could erupt over
Taiwan, according to the Chinese authors. Strategist Gao Hen wrote a U.S.
defense of Taiwan would cause a major war of "global and historic
implications."
China also plans electronic attacks on computer networks.
"We can make the enemy's command centers not work by changing their data
system," wrote Maj. Gen. Pan Junfeng. "We can cause the enemy's headquarters
to make incorrect judgments by sending disinformation."
Subject: Interview with Yugslav Pilot
The following is re-written from an article from the Yugoslav Army
Supreme
Command Headquarters- Information Service, April 1999
Interview with Major Nikolic, a member of the Knights squadron of
Yugoslav's air defense forces, operating MiG-29's
"When the first NATO air strike started, the attackers were confronted
by
the heroic "Knights" squadron." One of them was Major Nebojsa Nikolic.
When the radar screens of the YA Air Defense started blinking indicating
the arrival of an airborne armada on March 24th, the first squadron that
was sent up to counter the attack were the men of the King Lazar's
Knights
squadron. For their conduct in the battle all of them have received the
Medal for Courage and have been promoted to a higher rank. As soon as I
took off"- says Maj. Nebojsa Nikolic-" I noticed the glow of explosions
on
my left and on my right in the direction of Pancevo and Ruma.
(Translation- I noticed we were getting our asses kicked, and our
Command
&
Control was so goobered up they'd bombed the piss out of us before we
"defenders" even got airborne). My MiG was climbing rapidly and soon I
could see the same scene in the direction of Novi Sad (Translation-
...asses kicked over there too.). Flying above me were about two dozen
state-of-the-art enemy planes. Cutting across the Panonian plain with
their destination Belgrade they were unloading their deadly cargo.
Astonished by my presence and my determination to cut them off, they
quickly turned against me like a pack. (Translation- They knew I was
coming before I even rotated, and as soon as I lifted off, it was a mad
race to see who could shoot me down first.)
I had only just taken off and those are the most difficult conditions
for a dogfight. "To be an effective means of defense a combat aircraft must
reach adequate speed and altitude." Say all manuals (Translation, Our grammar
sucks).
After the take off I headed towards northern Vojvodina and evaded the
first enemy missile. I switched my on-board radar and armed my arsenal. Just
as I did it I had to maneuver to avoid another enemy air-to-air missile.
(Translation- Immediately, there were lots of missiles being shot at me)
Then came a third one straight from a pack of 24 enemy planes. I wonder
whether any well-paid and insured western pilot would take his chances
with two of our planes let alone two dozen. Although they are denying their
losses, it's a known fact that the Yugoslav skies have become a
graveyard for the western planes and pilots. This is mostly due to the fact that
we fight with our heart and with the determination to are defend our
country, and they are doing it for money and a with life insurance.
(Translation-
I sure wish my government and commanders gave a shit about me like theirs
do)
When I selected one as my target on the radar and positioned my jet
accordingly, I launched what we call a "small" missile. I did not
manage to verify the hit, because my MiG-29 was hit in that moment.
(Translation-
I saw something and got so excited I pulled the trigger. As soon as
that happened , I blew up.) The fighter turned into a torch. The flames
enveloped the cockpit. Because of the smoke and flames I could not see
either the instruments or anything outside. (Translation- The fire
suppression system on the FULCRUM sucks as does, as previously noted,
our grammar.) At that point I was at an altitude of 3000 meters over the
town of Titel and I was heading north towards Zrenjanin. My trusted MiG, the
plane I've flying for more than ten years, was heading down. When I
reached the altitude of about 2000 meters I decide to catapult myself
out of the burning jet. As I was gliding down with my parachute, enemy
planes kept circling around me trying to locate me in the dark and riddle me
with bullets. They kept firing blindly, (Translation- I descended through
the middle of a one-sided dogfight during which the rest of my squadron were
also being shot down, though since only the Americans wore Night Vision
Goggles, I couldn't tell what was happening at the time) fortunately
missing me and for this I am very eager to meet with them again. Only
Goerings Luftwaffe pilots in World War II acted like that. In that
respect the airman attacking our country are no different from the Nazis. (maybe
we forgot who was doing the ethnic cleansing)
I landed in the middle of a field some 400 meters away from my burning
MiG.
The flames were illuminating the entire area so I quickly moved away to
escape the persistent NATO pilots from locating me and killing me. (...
and it was raining aluminim from many other "Knights" airplanes) In the
darkness of the night I found refuge in an irrigation trench. Having
spent several hours hiding and trying to reach the town of Senta, I decided to
turn back towards the wreck where I was found by our rescue teams and
taken back to the airport.
The pilots from my squadron (those still alive) were overwhelmed with
joy when they saw I was alive and well. After a short debriefing I was
transferred to the Military Medical Academy for a check-up. It was
almost three in the morning when I finally called my wife Olga (oh baby, oh
baby). It was dawning when she and my daughter Sonja came to visit me.
A few days later the younger daughter, 11- years - old Tanja finally had
a chance to embrace her daddy. Major Nikolic was discharged from the
hospital and sent home. He contacted his "Knights" immediately and
offered to join the squadron. "Rest a bit, we have sufficient crews to take on
the NATO campaign"- he was told. (Translation- stay at home, we don't have
any planes left. And even if we did, you've already lost one of them for us
in a span of 5 minutes, thank-you-very-much.)
Since Major Nikolic came home from the hospital, the telephone is
constantly ringing. Friends keep calling to hear how he feels. Just
the other day, when he went to buy some groceries and the daily papers, a
lady in her late seventies recognized him and asked if she could hug him.
Her motherly kiss was a special medal for this brave member of the "Knights"
squadron."
Admiral Says Rib Injury May Have Caused Blue Angels Crash
The Associated Press
They must have been playing DEAD BUG?
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A pilot's rib injury may have led to the crash that
killed him and another member of the Navy's Blue Angels precision flying
team last year in Georgia, according to a report issued Thursday.
The report said Lt. Cmdr. Kieron O'Connor's minor rib injury might have
given him trouble tensing his abdominal muscles to avoid blacking out during
maneuvers that exert extreme gravitational forces on pilots.
The report rejected another investigator's conclusion that O'Connor might
have tried to avoid hitting a bird with the F/A-18 Hornet.
The rib injury theory is "the most likely scenario supported by the known
facts," wrote Rear Adm. Michael Bucci. The Blue Angels are based at
Pensacola Naval Air Station.
O'Connor, 35, and crewmate Lt. Kevin Colling, 32, were killed on Oct. 28
while practicing for air shows with the five other Blue Angels jets at Moody
Air Force Base. There was no evidence of a mechanical problem.
The report said that six days before the crash, O'Connor had accidentally
fallen on his side against Colling's knee during a "squadron game requiring
everyone to drop to the ground from their chairs."
Lt. Cmdr. Pat McMahon, the team's flight surgeon, wrote that O'Connor had
difficulty tensing his abdominal muscles in practice flights and experienced
tunnel vision because of the gravitational forces.
Some aviators use special suits that automatically inflate around the
pilot's legs to keep blood in the brain. The Blue Angels do not use them
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Why I like Marines:
Excerpts from a speech by RADM J. Stark, USN
...the first reason I like Marines. They set high standards-for
themselves and those around them-and will accept nothing less. I like the
way Marines march. I like the way Marines do their basic training whether
it's Quantico, Parris Island, or San Diego. I like the idea [that] Marines
"cultivate an ethos conducive of producing hard people in a soft age." I
like the fact that Marines stay in shape.
I like the fact that the Marines only have one boss - the Commandant. And
I like the directness of the Commandant.
I like the fact that Marines are stubborn. I like the way Marines obey
orders. I like the way the Marines make the most of the press. I like the
wholehearted professionalism of the Marines.
.. it occurred to me that the services could be characterized by
different breeds of dogs...The Air Force reminded me of a French Poodle.
The poodle always looks perfect ... sometimes seems a bit pampered ...
always travels first class. But don't ever forget that the poodle was bred
as a hunting dog and in a fight it's very dangerous.
The Army is kind of like a St. Bernard. It's big and heavy and sometimes
seems a bit clumsy. But it's very powerful and has lots of stamina. So
you want it for the long haul.
The Navy, God bless us, is a Golden Retriever. They're good natured and
great around the house. The kids love 'em. Sometimes their hair is a bit
long. They go wandering off for long periods of time, and they love water.
Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines
come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean.They're aggressive
on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and
they always go for the throat. That sounds like a Marine to me! So what
I really like about Marines is that 'first to fight' isn't just a motto,
it's a way of life. From the day they were formed at Tun Tavern 224 years
ago, Marines have distinguished themselves on battlefields around the
world. From the fighting tops of the Bonhomme Richard, to the sands of
the Barbary Coast, from the swamps of New Orleans to the halls of
Montezuma, from Belleau Wood, to the Argonne Forest, to Guadacanal, and
Iwo Jima, and Okinawa and Inchon, and Chosen Reservoir and Hue City and
Quang Tri and Dong Ha, and Beirut, and Grenada, and Panama, and Somalia
and Bosnia and a thousand unnamed battlefields in godforsaken corners of
the globe. Marines have distinguished themselves by their bravery, and
stubbornness and aggressive spirit, and sacrifice, and love of country,
and loyalty to one another. They've done it for you and me, and this
Country we all love so dearly.
And they asked for nothing more than the honor of being a United States
Marine. And that's why I like Marines!
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Naval Aviators, NFOs and God
A fat, ape-looking, ground-pounding, black- shoe Navy Admiral died and
went to Heaven. At the pearly gates, he was met by St. Peter. He told
St. Peter up front, "If there are Naval Aviators or NFO's in Heaven, I
don't want to come in because I hate Naval Aviators, and NFO's are even
worse!."
St. Peter said, "Don't worry about it, I can assure you that no Naval
Aviator has ever made it to Heaven. They have far too much fun while
they're alive".
So the Admiral entered into Heaven and began looking at all the wonderful
sights. All of a sudden he spotted something that he just couldn't
believe.
There before his fat, pudgy eyes was a 5'11", 175 lb. muscle-bound
specimen of manhood wearing a flight suit, brown boots and a Rolex. Not only
that, this guy had a Manchu mustache, Ray Ban sunglasses, a big fat cigar in
his mouth, a six-shooter in one hand, a bottle of Jack Daniels in the other,
bright-colored patches on his chest, and ten beautiful women hanging all
over him!
The Admiral called St. Peter over and said, "I thought you said there
weren't any Naval Aviators in Heaven -- there's one right over there."
St. Peter looked at where the Admiral was pointing and said, "Oh no,
that's God, He's not really a Navy Pilot, He just likes to pretend He is."
Naval Aviators, NFOs and God
A fat, ape-looking, ground-pounding, black- shoe Navy Admiral died and
went to Heaven. At the pearly gates, he was met by St. Peter. He told
St. Peter up front, "If there are Naval Aviators or NFO's in Heaven, I
don't want to come in because I hate Naval Aviators, and NFO's are even
worse!."
St. Peter said, "Don't worry about it, I can assure you that no Naval
Aviator has ever made it to Heaven. They have far too much fun while
they're alive".
So the Admiral entered into Heaven and began looking at all the wonderful
sights. All of a sudden he spotted something that he just couldn't
believe.
There before his fat, pudgy eyes was a 5'11", 175 lb. muscle-bound
specimen of manhood wearing a flight suit, brown boots and a Rolex. Not only
that, this guy had a Manchu mustache, Ray Ban sunglasses, a big fat cigar in
his mouth, a six-shooter in one hand, a bottle of Jack Daniels in the other,
bright-colored patches on his chest, and ten beautiful women hanging all
over him!
The Admiral called St. Peter over and said, "I thought you said there
weren't any Naval Aviators in Heaven -- there's one right over there."
St. Peter looked at where the Admiral was pointing and said, "Oh no,
that's God, He's not really a Navy Pilot, He just likes to pretend He is."
Al Gore and the Clintons are flying on Air Force One. Bill looks
at Al, chuckles, and says, "You know, I could throw a $100.00 bill
out the window right now and make one person very happy."
Al shrugs his stiff shoulders and says, "Well, I could throw ten
$10.00 bills out the window and make 10 people very happy."
Hillary tosses her perfectly hair-sprayed hair and says, "I could
throw one hundred $1.00 bills out the window and make one hundred
people happy."
Chelsea rolls her eyes, looks at all of them, and says," I could throw
all three of you out the window and make 250 million people happy.
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An elementary school teacher asked her class to tell a story that had a
moral to it. A little boy raised his hand and told a story about a farmer who
took his eggs to market. The farmer put all of the eggs in one crate and
unfortunately when his truck hit a large bump in the road, the crate fell
off the back of the truck and all of the eggs were broken. The moral to the
story: Don't put all of your eggs in one basket.
A little girl then raised her hand and told a story about another farmer
who made his financial projections based on the number of chickens that he
thought he was going to have. Unfortunately, not all of the eggs hatched
so he didn't have as many chickens as he thought. All of his projections
went awry. Moral to the story: Don't count your chickens before the eggs are
hatched.
Next a little boy raised his hand and told a story about his Uncle Ted,
who was a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War. While flying behind enemy
lines, Ted's plane was shot down. Before ejecting from the cockpit, Ted was able
to grab a machine gun, a machete and a six pack of beer. While descending to
earth in his parachute, Ted drank the six pack. After hitting the ground,
Ted found himself surrounded by 100 North Vietnamese soldiers. He killed the
first 70 with the machine gun before he ran out of bullets. He then
hacked the next 20 to death with the machete before the blade broke. He killed
the last 10 with his bare hands.
Somewhat horrified, the teacher asked the student what could possibly be
the moral to this story, to which the little boy replied, "Don't f@#k with
Uncle Ted when he's drunk."
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